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Decanter Centrifuge: Operating Reminders; Running Centrifuges in Series; The Use of Centrifuges with Drilling Fluids; There are those who tout the practice of series centrifugation as a beneficial procedure.

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Evaluate The Efficiency Of Solids Control Equipment

The volume and type of solids in a drilling mud system can adversely affect mud properties, reduce penetration rates, cause damage to drilling equipment, and increase total drilling costs. Efficiency controlling the solids content of the mud system is an important phase of an efficient and cost-effective drilling program. The three basic methods of removing solids are dilution and/or displacement of whole mud, settling and mechanical solids-control equipment.

Fig 1. Size capacity and operating of solids control equipment

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Comparison of Plate Separator, Centrifuge and Hydrocyclone

An important problem in the oil industry is the treatment of produced water, especially in the case of offshore oil production where space and floor area, needed for the separation equipment, are extremely costly. Increased production of water occurs when an oil field matures, and the availability of efficient and cost-effective techniques partly determines the period during which economic production is possible. For the final de-oiling process several techniques are available, of which plate separation, centrifugation and the use of hydrocyclones are important ones. Common characteristics of these three techniques are that only insoluble oil components can be removed, and that the prevailing separation process is movement of the oil droplets with respect to the continuous phase, water, as a result of an external force, viz. the gravity force or the centrifugal force.

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THE PROCEDURE OF MECHANICAL SEPARATION EQUIPMENT USED TO PROCESS DRILLING FLUIDS

PROCEDURE

1.Collecting Data for the Capture Analysis

A sample set of each of the three process streams should be obtained, sealed, and labeled for identification. The size of each sample should be 50–100 ml. For each set, the time between catching each of the samples should be as brief as possible.

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